Lockdown, monsoon and challenges

Roshan is a faith-based emerging young volunteer targets to reach each household in his village. In 5-days he learned that his community is in need of health materials and food relief.

After learning about how communicable disease spreads and how it is prevented, Rohan started reaching each household. There are 120 households that he is planning to reach. In the last 5 days he reached about 35 households. The villages are part of the hill district but the areas are plain and being close to the tropical district, it is hot.

In the last 5 days he experienced new things. He never thought that he would be capable of playing an important role in the areas of health. Everything is closed but he managed the necessities before starting. As he walks and meets people, he feels he is creating hope by teaching about prevention from communicable diseases.

Toilet: Proper sanitation facilities (for example, toilets and latrines) promote health because they allow people to dispose of their waste appropriately. Throughout the developing world, many people do not have access to suitable sanitation facilities, resulting in improper waste disposal.

Absence of basic sanitation facilities can:

• Result in an unhealthy environment contaminated by human waste. Without proper sanitation facilities, waste from infected individuals can contaminate a community’s land and water, increasing the risk of infection for other individuals. Proper waste disposal can slow the infection cycle of many disease-causing agents
• Contribute to the spread of many diseases/conditions that can cause widespread illness and death. Without proper sanitation facilities, people often have no choice but to live in and drink water from an environment contaminated with waste from infected individuals, thereby putting themselves at risk for future infection. Inadequate waste disposal drives the infection cycle of many agents that can be spread through contaminated soil, food, water, and insects such as flies.

Prevention is better than cure